Chapter 37: The Beginning of the Struggle for Sea Supremacy

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After hearing this, Buchen immediately took the matter seriously, and after instructing Natalia to continue to send agents of the Ministry of Intelligence to follow up on the matter, he inquired about the details.

"In other words, those ships of the undead kingdom didn't carry anything except orcs and some food supplies?" Buchen asked, squinting his eyes.

Natalia knew what Buchen was thinking, so she immediately said: "Your Majesty, the escort fleet of the Immortal Kingdom did not dock to rest, but only let the ships carrying orcs dock, and it seems that it does not mean to provide assistance to the Beast Puppet Dynasty except for soldiers." ”

Buchen leaned back in his chair and thought about it, and after a moment, his eyes lit up.

"Your Majesty, have you thought of anything?" Natalia asked curiously.

Buchen nodded slightly: "Thinking of the fact that the diplomat of the Immortal Kingdom suddenly came to ask for peace talks, and held on to the sea control in the Mediterranean, the Beast Puppet Dynasty should have been abandoned by the Immortal Kingdom." ”

"What do you say?" Natalia was confused, if the Immortal Kingdom really gave up the Beast Capture Puppet Dynasty, why would it want to transport a large number of beasts from the Western Continent to the Eastern Continent?

Buchen smiled and replied: "It's very simple, people with a discerning eye know very well that relying only on soldiers is not enough to change the situation in the Eastern Continent, but the Immortal Demon Lord still only gives Gongde Duchi soldiers, but does not give him the equipment of the magic guide cannon, which shows that the Immortal Kingdom did not do its best to help the Beast Puppet Dynasty, and at this time, the rule of the Beast Puppet Dynasty is already in danger, and only this level of assistance can be determined that the Immortal Kingdom thinks that the demise of the Beast Puppet Dynasty is no longer a matter of irreparability, and its current actions are just to help delay some more moments." Why did the Immortal Kingdom help the Beast Capture Puppet Dynasty to delay? In fact, he is just buying time for himself, trying to defeat Charlie before my country destroys the Beast Puppet Dynasty, or to ensure the absolute hegemony of the Mediterranean, so that after the Beast Puppet Dynasty is destroyed in the future, he can ensure the safety of his own homeland. And this is also the reason why the Immortal Kingdom no longer supports the Demon Guide Cannon of the Beast Capture Puppet Dynasty, compared to the survival of the Beast Capture Puppet Dynasty, the Immortal Demon Lord obviously attaches more importance to the safety of his country! ”

Natalia nodded as if she didn't understand: "Then the emperor, how should we deal with it?" ”

"Natalia." Buchen smiled, "This is no longer something that your intelligence department can solve alone. ”

"Your Majesty, you mean?" Natalia asked tentatively.

Buchen smiled, shook the bell under the table, and heard the sound, Lu Xueyu, who was on duty in the "Zichen Palace" today and served as the secretary, walked in.

"Your Majesty, what do you command?"

Buchen said: "Yu'er, call Prime Minister Qu Zhixiong and Navy Minister Zuo Hengyan, and then send a message to Yue Shiniang and Du Wei, who are in charge of the Mediterranean Fleet, and ask them to go to the conference room of the Empire State Building in Heaven after lunch for a meeting." ”

"Understood." Lu Xueyu used a pen to carefully record Buchen's instructions in his small notebook.

"Natalia." Buchen turned to his concubine and Minister of Intelligence again, "Don't go, come to the meeting later." ”

Natalia pinched her skirt and saluted: "Yes, my majesty." ”

Just ten minutes later, Qu Zhixiong and Zuo Hengyan, who were originally working in the cabinet, came to the Zichen Palace.

"I guess you already know about it on the way here." Buchen glanced at the two important ministers and said bluntly: "I think that the struggle for sea supremacy in the Mediterranean can start now. ”

Qu Zhixiong and Zuo Hengyan glanced at each other in surprise, and then said from Zuo Hengyan: "Your Majesty, is it too early?" The Navy hasn't gotten the latest steam-powered ironclads yet. ”

Buchen smiled and shook his head: "It's not early, the beast captives are declining right now, the undead kingdom feels that it is difficult to support itself, and there is already a heart to retreat, as long as the navy can give the undead kingdom a certain amount of pressure at this time, the undead demon lord who is worried about the security of the homeland will definitely lose the motivation to continue to invade the Western Continent, and then the undead kingdom will only have one way to withdraw its troops from the Western Continent, so that we will win half of this real world war!" ”

Qu Zhixiong and Zuo Hengyan both nodded, and they had to say that what they didn't say was very reasonable.

"It's just that the emperor, although the opportunity is good at this time, and the navy also has the heart to contribute to the country, but the strength is still a little weak!" Zuo Heng said with a bitter face.

Buchen waved his hand: "Don't get me wrong, I didn't let you go to the main fleet of the Immortal Kingdom, but I wanted you to break the battle. ”

"Breaking the war?" Zuo Heng was taken aback, this word seems to have been heard somewhere.

"Zuo Qing, have you forgotten everything you learned when you were studying at the Imperial Military Academy?" Buchen asked helplessly.

"Your Majesty, the minister is old, and this memory is inevitably a little bad." Zuo Heng said with a wry smile.

Buchen didn't mean to exhaustively investigate to the end, just glared at Zuo Hengyan, and continued the topic just now: "The so-called breaking engagement is to carry out a sudden attack on the enemy's supply line, due to the particularity of the species of the undead kingdom, the only target you want to attack is the enemy's troop carriers, whether it is the soldiers transported to the west by land, or the orcs transported to the east, they are your targets, you must do everything possible to sink these troop carriers, and give heavy damage to the enemy's escort fleet, and the frequency of sorties must be high enough, To give the Undead Demon Lord a feeling that sea dominance is in danger! ”

Hearing these words, a happy color appeared on Zuo Hengyan's face: "If it's just a troop carrier and an escort fleet, the navy will guarantee to complete the task!" ”

Buchen smiled at him with satisfaction: "I will go to Heaven for a meeting, you and Shi Niang and they will discuss the general battle plan, first draw up a rough draft, and let the naval staff supplement the details, all in all, in half a month, I will see the naval fleet sail out of the harbor and launch an attack on the undead kingdom!" ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured!" Zuo Heng slammed his chest, and his face was resolute and assured.

"Good."

……

After three days to formulate the battle plan, the naval fleet of the Central Empire showed extremely high efficiency, and it was not even used for half a month, and the Mediterranean Fleet of the Navy drove out of the harbor ten days later, according to the information provided by the Ministry of Intelligence, to intercept a transport fleet transporting orc soldiers to the Eastern Continent.

This transport fleet did not know that it was already targeted when it was still in the harbor of the Western Continent, and was caught off guard after the sudden appearance of the Mediterranean Fleet, and in the face of the attack of nearly 100 warships of all sizes equipped with rifled guns, the Immortal Kingdom escort formation composed of more than ten old magic warships resisted for less than an hour before being wiped out, exposing dozens of troop carriers converted from merchant ships to the Mediterranean Fleet.

The Mediterranean Fleet did not give polite to the enemy, and surrounded the 20 or so search and transport ships, and fired all of them into torches floating on the sea.

It is conservatively estimated that in this battle, at least 30,000 Western Continent orcs were annihilated, and the skeleton sailors who were annihilated were even more numerous!

After the Mediterranean Fleet succeeded, it did not stop at all, and immediately rushed towards another target provided by the Ministry of Intelligence!

Recently, several troop transport fleets have not been heard from, which soon attracted the attention of the Undead Demon Lord, and after taking the risk of using space ghosts to explore the situation of the Hushan Military Port, the undead kingdom finally confirmed that it was the Mediterranean Fleet of the Central Empire that had been attacking the troop transport fleet continuously recently!

"Damn! The world is not subservient, this kid is really arrogant! The Undead Demon Lord slammed his fist into the armrest of the throne, and Buchen's fleet was so unscrupulous that he felt a great threat.

"Your Majesty, it is said that the new warships of the world have a speed of at least eight knots, and the firepower is still very fierce, if the kingdom only uses the old magic cannon warships to fight, I am afraid it will be difficult to have a chance of victory." Mobent Farr said with a frown.

"Utaniv, what happened to the new magic cannon battleship? Are you able to go into battle? The Undead Lord immediately asked Utaniv, who was in charge of the new warship project.

"Your Majesty, the number of new magic warships is still a little too small." Utaniv replied, "There are only twenty ships so far, and I am afraid it will be difficult to compete with the enemy's main fleet." ”

"Who said they were only allowed to go to war? The kingdom will send three hundred old-style magic warships and at least two forbidden spell release platforms to assist them, but if you are the core of the fleet, twenty is enough! "The Immortal Demon Lord said.